This policy brief discusses policies that encourage schools to be built close to the community they serve in order to improve access to active routes for students, such as walking and biking to school.

This policy brief aims to provide an understanding of the potential impacts on the individual health insurance marketplace if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, defunded, or amended at the federal level.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our annual Spotlight on Health Equity Awards program! The award recognizes and honors those who are actively creating enduring health equity in Washington State and with a $1000.00 cash prize to be used at the recipient’s discretion – no restrictions or strings attached – as well as a free registration to our annual conference, The Science of HOPE.

The staff here at Foundation for Healthy Generations collectively identified the first five honorees which include a doula, journalist, high school teacher, community health worker and a small business.

We need your help finding the next fifteen awardees. Tell us about the individuals, organizations, and businesses you admire. Your heroes, the champions that are on the ground removing the barriers to ensure that all people are valued equally and that everyone has the opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Nominations due by December 12th at noon.

Foundation for Healthy Generations is committed to building awareness of N.E.A.R. sciences. We have expanded this work to include hosting a Speakers Bureau of passionate individuals to increase capacity to disseminate N.E.A.R. education and invite and support powerful partnerships to create enduring health equity.

The Speakers Bureau features ACE Interface education for a cohort of 25 highly motivated individuals, providing an opportunity to further the development of capacity in our state. In the Speakers Bureau we have invested in a group of people who care deeply about health equity and who are working together as educators and coaches to activate, elevate and inform community voice, accelerate its strength through shared learning and N.E.A.R. informed action, and thereby transform community conditions for health.

Members of the N.E.A.R. Speaker Bureau have been trained to present N.E.A.R. science with fidelity and facilitate dialogue informed by and using the N.E.A.R. sciences. These N.E.A.R. Expert Presenters & Coaches use high quality materials that have been approved by content experts, improved through field experience, and proven to be effective with diverse audiences.